cheshireinthemiddle:danguy96: alexxdz: alaija: sindri42: cookingwithroxy: sindri42: pridebrary: The

cheshireinthemiddle:danguy96: alexxdz: alaija: sindri42: cookingwithroxy: sindri42: pridebrary: The LGBTQ is a diverse community. Is this diverse enough for you? Is it just me or does this look pretty much like the population distribution of the country? Okay so a baseline of 273. That’s our total. Which means… White at 69% Black at 15% ‘Latinx’ at 7% Asain at ~7% Multicultural at 2% 2010 U.S Census [10] Table 1 [11] Self-identified race Percent of population  White alone   72.4% Black or African American   12.6% Asian   4.8% Native American and Alaska Natives   0.9% Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders   0.2% Two or more races   2.9% Some other race   6.2% Total   100.0% Hispanic and Latino Americans (of any race): 16.3%[12] So, factoring for the fact that Latinx is more of a cultural group than a pure racial group… Yep! This is just natural distribution. (that is, there’s also a mix of racial identities in people who come from latin countries, and by the US Census it’s a subgroup rather than an ethnic group in and of itself.) Rephrasing this slightly. So in short Blacks and Asians are overrepresented in LGBT tv characters, Latino numbers are weird because the two counters are probably using different definitions anyway and Latinx isn’t a word and doesn’t even work within the framework of the spanish language, I have no idea what OP means by “multicultural” in this context, and the real problem here is that Native Americans get absolutely zero fucking representation. Other than the difficulty of figuring out which box you want to place them in. Small sample sizes lead to your percentages being a bit squiffy. It’s only 273 examples being used, that there might be a few extra in one category and fewer in another is to be expected.  I’m guessing by multicultural they mean mixed race/ethnicity. Conflating culture and race seams to be an oddity of Americans… As with “bi racial”. Really I see no basis for any complaints re. “diversity” based on those statistics. Latinx isn’t a real word. Not only that, but it’s incredibly racist to actual Latino people (this is coming from someone whose mom is Cuban, btw). It is so wierd that people honestly get angry that white people are the majority of things in white majority countries. -- source link